sloccount

[treellama]

David Wheeler has a program called "sloccount" which will count how many Source Lines of Code are in your program, and also provide some handy estimates. I've run it before on Aleph One with amusing results, but this time I thought I'd see just how involved a map editor is. So, I ran it on Smithy and Weland.

Smithy:

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Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC)                = 5,257
Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months) = 1.14 (13.71)
 (Basic COCOMO model, Person-Months = 2.4 * (KSLOC**1.05))
Schedule Estimate, Years (Months)                         = 0.56 (6.76)
 (Basic COCOMO model, Months = 2.5 * (person-months**0.38))
Estimated Average Number of Developers (Effort/Schedule)  = 2.03
Total Estimated Cost to Develop                           = $ 154,318
 (average salary = $56,286/year, overhead = 2.40).

Weland:

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Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC)                = 8,609
Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months) = 1.92 (23.01)
 (Basic COCOMO model, Person-Months = 2.4 * (KSLOC**1.05))
Schedule Estimate, Years (Months)                         = 0.69 (8.23)
 (Basic COCOMO model, Months = 2.5 * (person-months**0.38))
Estimated Average Number of Developers (Effort/Schedule)  = 2.80
Total Estimated Cost to Develop                           = $ 259,025
 (average salary = $56,286/year, overhead = 2.40).

(data generated using David A. Wheeler's 'SLOCCount'.)

Bear in mind, I am guessing these are estimates for "average" developers, which thermo and I are far from. So, increase salary and decrease person-years accordingly.

[thermoplyae]

Smithy:

Code: Select all

Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC)                = 5,257
Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months) = 1.14 (13.71)
 (Basic COCOMO model, Person-Months = 2.4 * (KSLOC**1.05))
Schedule Estimate, Years (Months)                         = 0.56 (6.76)
 (Basic COCOMO model, Months = 2.5 * (person-months**0.38))
Estimated Average Number of Developers (Effort/Schedule)  = 2.03
Total Estimated Cost to Develop                           = $ 154,318
 (average salary = $56,286/year, overhead = 2.40).

This is quite accurate, actually. doy and I were the two people working on it, and our efforts probably summed to be about six months apiece, stretched out over a longer period due to laziness, distractions, other jobs, and school.

The price tag at the end should put the rest of you to shame, but for me it's a bitter reminder of how much money I'm not / won't be making as a topologist.

[RyokoTK]

[Zott]

May I pay in Gratitude?

Makes me wonder of the development costs associated with Obed and if the registration fees even put a dent in that number. (Probably not)

[ray]

way down in COCOMO

[Kurinn]

You could be a richer man, but you know hobbies only cost time and money.

[epstein]

This is quite accurate, actually. doy and I were the two people working on it, and our efforts probably summed to be about six months apiece, stretched out over a longer period due to laziness, distractions, other jobs, and school.

The price tag at the end should put the rest of you to shame, but for me it's a bitter reminder of how much money I'm not / won't be making as a topologist.

Yeah, and here I am applying for positions that would pay maybe $50k, after 8 years of graduate education and experience in my field, and a PhD. I feel your pain, though I've developed a healthy aversion to coding after deciding not to make a career out of it, so I don't keep coming back to how I could have been driving a Bentley now instead of a 1995 station wagon (which, btw, is awesome).